Archive for the ‘Rare song’ Category
Dil ki dhadkan bana liya unko
Posted on: September 5, 2012
“Mumtaz Mahal” (1944) was produced under the banner of Ranjit Movietone. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Khursheed ,Chandramohan, Yakub, Sajjan, Sulochana Chatterjee etc in it.
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O pardesi ghar aa jaa
Posted on: September 4, 2012
“Apna Paraaya” (1942) is an old and obscure movie. The only thing that I am able to find out about this movie is that it was directed by Ramchandra Thakur and that it had Hansa Wadkar as one of the actors. I request our knowledgeable readers to throw more light on this movie.
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Ghat kaari matwaari ghir aayee
Posted on: September 3, 2012
Today (3 september) is the death anniversary of Meena Shorey. it was on this day in 1989 that Meena Shorey breathed her last.
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This article is written by Sadanand Kamath, a fellow enthusiast of Hindi movie music and a regular contributor to this blog.
Old film song lovers would be eternally thankful to the internet technologies and the websites hosting video/audio and MP3 clips of these songs which have made it possible to unearth many of the old film songs which were not known to most of us. I have been active on these websites for the last 3 years or so and I can say that not only has this brought back the memories of many songs after a gap of 30-40 years for me, but also brought to my notice some rare songs I was not aware of. I also became aware of some of the lesser known music directors, lyricists and singers. In fact, I had already created my playlist of such songs most of which have been covered in my articles for discussion in this blog.
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Sadhana was one of the biggest female star of her time in 1960s. But her aura was all but gone by late 1960s and 1970s. There were several reasons for that including the fact that she fell ill at the prime of her career that kept her out of movies in late 1960s. By the time she recovered and tried to make a comeback, the Hindi movie world had moved on and the new generation of movie goers had their own stars among the newer crop of female actors.
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“Khamoshi” was a Geetanjali Pictures production. It was produced by Asit Sen (different from the comedian of the same name). This movie had Rajesh Khanna, Waheeda Rehman, Lalita Pawar, Ajit Chatterji, Iftekhar, Tarun Ghosh, Nazir Hussain, Snehlata, Anwar, Deven Verma, Naina etc in it.
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“Neelkamal” (1947) was an Oriental Pictures production. It was directed by Kidar Sharma. The movie had Raj Kapoor, Madhubala, Begam Para, Nazira, Rajendra, Pesi pate, Pt Iqbal etc in it.
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Bhai bairan kaali ratiyaan
Posted on: September 2, 2012
“Kaareegar”(1958) was a Panchdeep Chitra production. It was directed by Vasant Joglekar. The movie had Ashok Kumar, Nirupa Roy, Om Prakash, Madhu Apte, Lalita Pawar, Agha, Ramesh Kapoor, Sumnati Gupte, Jagirdar, Nana Palsikar, Minoo Mumtaz, Helen etc in it.
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When one talks of a Hindi movie called “Amar Prem”, one normally means “Amar Prem” (1971) which was a Rajesh Khanna-Sharmila Tagore movie directed by Shakti samanta. But there was another movie with the same title as far back as in 1948 too.
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